Dr. Pernille Knudtzon
Dr. Pernille Knudtzon, MD educated as a specialist in Family Medicine, Acupuncture and NLP Trainer and a member of Colegio de Medicos de Malaga since 2001. She leads Vitafakta Health Clinic in Southern Spain offering General Practitioner consultations, lectures, workshops and retreats empowering clients in taking care and supporting their Health, Vitality and Wellbeing.
Her main medical training and specialization was done in Denmark. But curiosity led her to travel and study Holistic Medicine and Lifestyle aspects in many places around the world over the last 30 years. From her consultation in southern Spain, she is providing Personal Health Consultations based on her specialization in Family Medicine and a holistic health and functional medicine approach. She also provides lectures, workshops and retreats empowering clients in taking care and supporting their Health, Vitality and Wellbeing guiding her clients to live a healthy life and to thrive the most.
She is presently studying Functional Medicine at the Institute of Functional Medicine https://www.ifm.org/.
Health is a choice – you can make the difference.
My Mission
My Passion for Natural Health and Biological Medicine goes back to my childhood. At the age of 9, I was cured of severe allergy and hay fever by my colleague and mentor for many years Inger Marie Haut and Poul Holm in Vitafakta Health Clinic in Denmark. Since then I have an interest in preventive medicine, and that mind and body affects each other. My own allergy was bad, but it was cured with herbal medicine, diet and good practical advice on how I could “manage my sensitivity”. Especially in periods of stress later in life, where echoes of allergy volunteered, did these exercises and practical advices come to benefit.0
During medical school, I added the medical knowledge of complementary and alternative medicine, and studies of reflexology and meridians in 1984 – this led to multiple courses in Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Throughout the years, interest in the Chinese medicine has elaborated, and I have regularly attended classes and put on my “Chinese glasses” to look at symptoms such as life–imbalances and diseases, from the yin / yang perspective.
In the old days in China the doctor was paid to keep patients healthy. When the people of the village were healthy, food and shelter was there – and the doctor was paid in kind. When people were sick, they could not feed one another nor the doctor! So it was all about keeping people healthy! This is a health-building approach, which is an important building block in the clinic. It has been and is rewarding to have “a foot in both camps” and thus be able to deal with imbalances / diseases / lifestyle balance both from a Traditional Western Medical and from an Eastern Medical approach.
